Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-09-01
A dispatch from Glen Falls, N. Y.

States lIdI jesse MtINlll, II EdllNt OI huld-
mazoo, has robbed the National express
company of $4,000 and skipped with a
comely grass widow named Mrs. Name
Montgomery, while his wife and ten years
old daughter were visiting in Kalamazoo.
John Bolt was pulling stumps near
Grand Haven. One was lifted short
distance and Bolt crawled under to shovel
dirt away from the roots, when the rope
broke and Bolt was pinned to the earth.
The unfortunate man was rescued after
half an hour of torture. He Is very low,
but may live.
The Alma college will open September
II. Ladies will be roomed and boarded in
the dOrmit0ry building. Gentlemen must
room among the citi. ems for the present
Terms of tuition will be for the academic
and normal department 40 cents per week,
for the commercial so cents, and for the
| college course 40 cents.
Levander Colwell who was the engineer
on the switch engine that caused the great
railroad smashup in Jackson Oct. 10, 1873,
in which many people were killed, has
become so violently insane that he has
been sent to the Kalamazoo insane asy lum.
He has shown signs of insanity since
shortly after the accident.
The skeleton of an immense animal was
discovered in Williams township, Bay
county, on James Grants farm, while dig
| ging for water. The jawbone is 33 inches
long and % inches wide, and the tusks Z
| feet inches long. The ribs are five inches
wide, and one tooth is 16 inches in
circumference. The balance of the bones
are of proportionate size.
Plans for a 500, 900 addition to the state
normal school have been adopted by the
state board of education. Two wings
each S0x100 feet, one on the north and one
on the south, will be connected with the
main building by large corridors. The
south wing will be called the science
building and the north one cut into four
society rooms and library.
The state fair opens at Jackson Septem-
Der 10 and lasts until the night of the
esd. Marshall o. A. Hyde, has issued his
orders relative to the examination of
horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poultry,
the races, cavalcades, etc. The program
is a peculiarly fine one, and there are q
thousand things which indicate that this
falls fair is to be big thing.
A meeting of the chief movers In the
Detroit d st. Clair River railroad scheme
was held at st. Clair the other day, ana
Hon. Frank l.. Dodge of Lansing, who
has been securing the rightof way, bonus,
etc., was directed to go on and I'LL up the
gaps" and push the work as rapidly as
possible. There has already been secured
fully Is miles of the right of way, most of
it between st. Clair and Mt. Clemens.
Simon S Powers, aged about 55, who
lived in West Niles and owned farm two
miles west of that town, started to walk
home from his country place the other
night. He took the Michigan Central
rail- DAD. An express train dashed sud
denly around a sharp curve and Powers
was struck by the engine and killed in
stantly, the body being TERRIBLY crushed.
Deceased leaves wife and eight children.
Seth Guthrie, Grand Trunk passenger
| conductor who resides In Battle Creek,
went to Goguac lake with his wife, Mrs.
Mile Lancaster, and small boy from
| kalama co. They went for boat ride.
| AS they were getting out at the landing,
/ 10y a mishap all of them were tumbled into
| four feet of water. Mrs. Lancaster COM
menced TO bleed at the mouth. A violent
hemorrhage caused by fright ensued, and
she died almost instantly.
The superior court of Grand Rapids has
granted Harriet Friant divorce from her
husband, Thomas Friant, the rich lumber
man, on condition that he makes over to
her SOS, 900 in property such as she can
accept. The couple were married quar-
ter Of century ago at Muskegon and COM
menced life very poor. He Is now worth
quarter of million, and If he complies
with the courts decree Mrs. Frant will be
worth over 500, 900 in her own name.
Dr. Carl Rominger, ex-stae geoogist,
| has Just returned from visit to the Lake
| Superior company's gold find near Ish-
peming. The doctor went up to make a
careful examination of the property for
the purpose of satisfying himself of the
reliability of the reports sent out concern
| ing it, lie found the shaft closed to visit
ors, so concluded to do little mining on
his own account, and taking a pick pro-
ceeded to test the vein few hundred feet
from the shaft. He soon turned up some
| fine specimens of sugar quartz and one or
| two pieces carrying free gold, and he
states now that If anyone believes that the
Lake Superior's find is simply a little
chimney of fine ore they are mistaken, for
the entire vein is rich. Marquette Journal.
Speaking of Secretary Lamar order re-
storing the Marquette, IIoughton IL Onto
nagon land grant TO the public domain,
the Marquette Mining Journal says:
without entering into a discussion of the
| justice of this ruling, it may be said that
| it will be accerted with satisfaction by
the people of the upper peninsula general
| ly, as the convict n has obtained among
| them for years that the old M. ii. d q.
| company should have long since complied
with the conditions of its grant by COM
| pleting its line, and deserves TO lose the
| lands now declared forfeited. The COM
pany now operating the Marquette, Hough-
ton d Ontonagon line doubtless anticipated
this action of the interior department and
will not therefore be disturbed by 1t in
anyway"